Index to all release notes

Update 11.0, Official - May 13, 2013

Of Special Note

New Launcher

The LOTRO Launcher no longer requires .net 1.1. You will notice several changes, especially during patching/updating. The new launcher also respects your default browser setting. It will no longer default to IE when opening links.

New Region: Wildermore

Wildermore, north of East Rohan, offers new quests, new warbands, and a whole new series of Endgame activities and rewards. A vector from East Rohan will lead players into the snow covered fields and hills. Learn more about Wilermore by watching our Video Dev Diary.

The Epic Story Continues

Book 10: Snows of Wildermore continues the Epic story into Wildermore, discovering the source of the sudden change in weather and the new dangers in Wildermore. Along the way players catch up on what the Rangers have been doing since they were last encountered. Read the Developer Notes for more information.

Mounted Combat Update

Mounted Combat receives a significant update, with the yellow trait tree being integrated into the base War-steed for optimal maneuverability. In place of the previous movement trait tree, each class will get their own specific yellow tree, with boost and skills tailored to each role. For more details, click here to read the developer diary.

Lalia’s Market Now Open in Bree-town!

Lalia, daughter of Bob who works at the Prancing Pony, gained a certain level of notoriety amongst adventurers after an incident she had in the Barrow-downs. However, her wandering days are now behind her, and she’s opened her very own shop in her adopted city. As those who’ve met Lalia before know, she’s always had an appreciation of the value of a good piece of clothing. Learn more about Lalia’s market .

Hobbit Gifts

Once a day, every day, players will get a new alert letting you know that you have received a special Silver Hobbit Present. Once a week, VIP players will receive an additional alert letting you know you have received a special Gold Hobbit Present. Clicking below the Silver Present or the Gold Present will display the reward you've gotten and other rewards you could have won. Gold Hobbit Presents offer a greater chance of getting the top level gifts. After free rolls are used, all players can use Mithril Coins to roll for either more Silver Hobbit Presents or Gold Hobbit Presents. Read the FAQ for more information.

Alert space changes

The new Alerts Panel is intended to allow you to see all of your alerts at one time. This includes most of your alerts: accomplishments, reputation, mail, etc. Hobbit Gifts, dynamic layer status, pending loot and connection status icons will all be separate from this panel. Connection status is now its own element that can moved around separately from all alerts.

Housing Upkeep and Foreclosure changes

Housing Upkeep now allows for paying further in advance and adds the option to pay with Mithril Coins. Houses without upkeep paid for the past six months will go into Foreclosure and all items inside will be put into Escrow.

Note: A two month grace period will be allowed for homes which are already more than 6 months overdue when Update 11 goes Live. More details in the developer notes.

Additional Mithril Services

Trait Configurations reset

Mounted Combat Trait Trees have been updated, so all your Trait Configurations have been reset and points refunded.

Legendary item points refunded

In Update10, a lot of scaled items and some Legendary Items got a DPS bump. We are pushing this out to items that players acquired before Update 10 went live. In the process we had to refund all your Legendary Item points

Enhanced Experience

There will be two kinds of Enhanced XP: VIP Bonus XP and Store item Bonus XP.

VIP Bonus will appear blue on your experience bar. Store Bonus will appear as light blue. Bonus experience will apply to all basic forms of experience (adventure XP, legendary, steed, etc.). If both the VIP bonus and the Store bonus are present, the VIP bonus will be used first. Store Experience boosters, like the Tome of Extraordinary Experience, can be used along with these bonuses.

It’s the Little Things

New Bug reporting tool

We’ve updated our bug reporting tool. You can find out more by reading this post.

Additional “Opt out” emotes

Practical Joke -Players will now be immune to Practical Joke when Involuntary Emotes are disabled.

Toasting Mug -Fixed a bug that allowed this emote to bypass the 'Disable Involuntary Emotes' option.

Release notes

General

Some persistent area effects (hotspots) with white visualization borders that only benefitted your enemies should now correctly be drawn red.

Item experience will now be properly displayed as a reward and granted to characters of the appropriate level for level-scaling quests.

Fate will now contribute to OCPR in place of Will

Fixed a bug that was causing item procs that grant bonus damage on harmful skill plays to break Crowd Control effects. These procs should now only trigger when a Harmful skill that does damage is applied.

You should no longer get a “A failure has occurred in submitting your support request” error message on login. It has been replaced with a more meaningful error message, which will hopefully help us figure out what's going on.

Set bonuses that reduce Defeat Event Cooldowns no longer stack. This will prevent unintentional stacking that could reduce cooldowns to 0s.

The Captain's Cloak of the Fornost Captain and Wyrmfire Mender's Ring have new proc effects on them. These proc effects are set up to trigger off the Captain's healing skills (and ONLY the Captain's).

Fixed a bug that could cause packaged items to sometimes fail to automatically stack with other identical items.

/bug will now toggle the Help screen - bringing it up if it is closed and closing it if it is open. From the Help screen there is a button which players can use to open a bug.

Classes

Burglar

Fixed a bug where the Burglar trait Conservative Combatant was not apply to Strategic Strike

Champion

Champion's Armour of the Unyielding Rage 4-set bonus should now proc on strike skills, not just Wild Attack.

The Champions Greater/Lesser Erebor Beserker's Armour 2set bonus was applying Wild Attacks Bleed on critical hit but not devastating criticals. This has been fixed.

Swift Strike was not properly proccing the Greater Erebor Beserker's Armour set bonus for champions even though it has strike in its name.

Hunter

Slightly increased the power cost of the Hunter mounted skill "Spread of Arrows" to account for a second attack being added

Lore-master

The lore-master mounted skill 'Bond of the Rider' will now heal nearby allies without requiring that they be part of their fellowship

Loremaster cosmetic pet skills will now correctly grey out when the loremaster has a cosmetic pet summoned

The Lore-master Mounted Combat pet! On critical hit, the pet will apply a bleed, and will have a chance to slow when attacking enemies from behind. Each of its attacks also have a chance to proc the 'Flanked!' effect, which will now cause Enduring Embers to do additional damage, and Metal and Mettle to provide a power heal.

Rune-keeper

Rune-keeper Greater Erebor Cleanser armour set bonus applies the Writ of Fire DOT of the same size as the player would.

Warden

Wardens should now be able to exchange their Might rings for Agility rings at the Rohan Quartermasters

PvMP - Wardens may now barter for the Band of the Nimble Sentry and Ring of Precision. In addition, Wardens may also exchange their Rings of Resolute Defender and Bands of Fury for the appropriate Agility piece.

The following Warden class quest rewards have been adjusted to use Agility as their primary DPS stat.

Warder's Wristband

Warden's Piercer

Battle Medallion

Gold Star Earring

Fight Against the Darkness

Mounted Combat

Reducing damage done by Cry Wrath, Cry Havoc and Rally the Riders by 10-15%. Sorry to do it, but Captain damage output was far too high. Even with the reduction they are still capable of massive DPS while mounted.

Fixed a bug preventing the Light Steed trait Motivation Through Aggression from applying its effects to Enduring Embers and Sign of Power: Inspiration

Increasing damage of Bond and Metal and Mettle and lowering power cost of Enduring Embers for Mounted Combat Lore-masters

Making several changes to base mount stats to help differentiate Light, Medium, Heavy (no nerfs)

Increasing damage of Debate in all disciplines for mounted combat Lore-masters

Hunter: Increased the damage of Kill Shot and added a second attack to “Spread of Arrows”

Warbands

Amongst their standard rewards, Warband Reward boxes should now also provide players with a chance to obtain new warsteed cosmetics and Warband Barter Tokens, which will be used to purchase the legendary pocket upgrades. Whereas the cosmetics will be a very rare drop from each reward box, the barter tokens will drop at a rate relative to the difficulty of the warband.

Legendary Items

Legendary Bridles will now have a different icon in the Tracker Panel

Applying a Star-Lit Crystal to a Legendary Item will once again correctly reset your legacies.

Some Legendary Item legacies were missing their description in their tooltip between the tier and the name. Those legacies also failed to show any text in the “Are you sure you want to permanently replace” question asked when using the legacy replacement scrolls. This has been fixed.

Raids, Instances, & Skirmishes

The Seal drop rate in Flight to the Lonely Mountain has been increased slightly

Hytbold:The faction NPCs now show up from the start and indicate you need to get more rep with them before they'll aid you.

Performance issues in the Tower of Orthanc Raid related to Bukot and visualizations of his area effects have been mitigated.

It is no longer possible to join an instanced public questing area if you do not meet the entrance prerequisites (e.g. having exceeded the per-hour instance limit).

Non-level cap barter vendors should now allow the exchange of barter tokens at a reduced cost. Players can now trade 15 silver tokens, rather than 25, for 1 gold token.

For The Bells of Dale 6-man: Challenge quest should now rebestow upon reset of the final boss fight, Brotherhood of the Elements sorcerers should now consistently attack, challenge quest should now reward proper currency, and the Jangovar archers should no longer look like they're healing the players instead of wounding them.

In Their Absence Scaling - Ost Dunhoth: The landscape entrance will now open only the Wound/Fear wing. Other wings must be acessed through the Instance Join UI.

The Road to Erebor - The 'meta-deed' accomplishment for the Erebor instance cluster will now award a title in addition to the other rewards: Defender of Erebor

Battle for Erebor

Levers are no longer selectable

Great Barrow - Maze

Challenge rebestows after reset

Wraith of Earth

Tiers spawn the correct chests

Pits of Isengard

Lever at the beginning should be created every time the instance is

Battle in the Tower

Fixed a location in the final fight where retreating mobs could get stuck

The Maze

Challenge rebestows on reset

Flight to the Lonely Mountain:

Mobs hitting the entrance gate resets the fight

Sammath Gul

Challenge chest looks shinier

The Ettenmoors

Quests and Deeds that require the defeat of Players or Monster Players will now advance for all contributors, not just the player who dealt the final blow.

Rune-keepers should now properly receive Battlefield promotions in the Ettenmoors.

Six new Critical Rating Corruptions have been added to all Monsterplay classes.

All brands and Insignia that gave 60 seconds of immunity to various Crowd Control effects have had their effect durations reduced to 20 seconds.

Using any Brand or Insignia results in a 60 second lock out from using another.

Stalker

Wargs should now have access to Critical Rating Corruptions.

The amount of Critical Rating granted from the Critical Rating corruptions has been increased.

Items

The Great River Helmet of Might and the Enduring Great River Helmet of Might have had their names changed to the Great River Helmet of Strength and the Enduring Great River Helmet of Strength.

Stats in the character panel should now display correct contributions in their tooltips

The Erebor Bowmaster and Erebor Huntsman sets should now appropriately display their 4-piece bonuses.

The 'Riddle-keeper's Earrring' from has had its stats adjusted slightly. It will now provide more Fate and less Tactical Mastery.

“Gaunt-lord's Pitted Stud” that drops from the disease wing in Ost Dunhoth has been renamed to “Red-huorn's Putrid Stud”.

“Gaunt-lord's Pitted Stud” that drops from the posion wing in Ost Dunhoth has been renamed to “Earring of Blight”

The following items have had their incomparable versions renamed

Battle-historian's Loop -& Battle-annalist's Loop

Necklace of the Gathering Dark -& Necklace of the Gathering Night

Trampled Silver Ring -& Stifled Silver Ring.

Created two new healing-focused ring upgrades for the Eastemnet Shields, Weapons, Jewellery Quartermaster

Hytbold Armour of the Animal-friend now increases the duration of the Incoming Healing effect in addition to the duration of the Heal over Time.

Many Warden Shields and pieces of Medium Armour obtained in Dunland and beyond have been adjusted to use Agility as the primary stat.

Universal Toolkits and Scrolls of Universal Lore obtained from Bound Lootboxes should now be bound to account, rather than to character.

Riddermark-bound lootboxes now contain Tarnished Symbols of Celebrimbor and the Elder King.

The Hytbold sets should now be the same color across a set when obtained. Players may continue to dye these appearances as they see fit.

Crafting

The following recipes were requiring a Balanced Steel Hilt instead of an Iron Hilt:

Heavy Iron Sword Recipe,

Heavy Iron Dagger Recipe,

Heavy Iron Axe Recipe,

Heavy Iron Great Sword Recipe,

Heavy Iron Headsman's Axe Recipe,

Heavy Iron Halberd Recipe

Heavy Iron Mace Recipe.

These have been fixed and now require an Iron Hilt.

Adjusted ALL crafting facilities to be used as regular and superior across the world. All non-unique facilities have had the word 'Superior' removed from their names.

User Interface

When you are on a quest which is advanced by emoting, the quest tracker will now contain a quick-slot to trigger the emote. You can click on the emote quick-slot icon in the quest tracker instead of typing the emote at the command line. Note: Some quests are set to disable this technology (because discovering or selecting the emote is the purpose of the quest).

The Disable New Item Highlight feature now correctly disables highlighting when you acquire items that are merged into an existing stack.

All effects will display the exact time remaining down to the second, no matter how long their duration.

Certain crafting vendors in Bree have been finally convinced by the local merchants association to observe the reputation discount given to Friends to the Men of Bree.

Skill and Slayer Deed Boosts will now display and filter correctly.

Some skills should now correctly show the cool-down overlay while they are on cool-down (for example Burglar Mounted Combat Skill Jollification, when used with Stratagem)

When changing between saved Mounted Combat Trait configurations, we now automatically show the appropriate trait tree

Quests

The Epilogues for Gorothul and Braiglinn will now give Medallions as rewards, instead of Medallions of Dol Guldur.

Breeland Quest: Spiders in the Midgewater - this quest is now more solo-friendly for low-level players.

Shortened the duration of the black screen at the end of Galadriel's Dream.

Made adjustments to the skills used during certain Interlude quests.

Festivals

The Horsefields Derby - The completion of the derby is now a little smoother. If you are running low on your timer but made it to the top of the hill you will more likely complete it now.

This year’s spring festival has new rewards!

Barter for Spring Leaves (festival currency):

Cloak (hooded and hoodless versions)

Dress

Robe

New festival mount

War-steed Cosmetic Leggings (Matches the festival mount)

War-steed Cosmetic Caparison (Matches the festival mount)

Barter for Flowers (flowers are obtained through the Gathering Flowers repeatable quest)

War-steed Cosmetic Halter (Matches the festival mount)

War-steed Cosmetic Saddle (Matches the festival mount)

Steed of the Jester

Last year, this was a rare drop chance from the gift boxes obtained via barter for flowers. This year it can be purchased directly for flowers.

New gift-box rare drop – Full Spring War-steed Cosmetic Set

You can purchase the full set through other means (see above), but if you’d like to try your luck, you have a chance to obtain the full set from the gift boxes!